Champs Eights Head

Next race: Sunday 13th May 2012

**Please note the change of date due to clashes with National Masters**
Division times: 12:00 noon, 1:30 pm & 3:00pm

Course Fastest Times
College Men (2008Men’s Course Record) – Downing M1 4:24.1
College Women (2008 – Women’s Course Record) - Christs W1 5:07.6
CRA Men (2010) – XPress XP1 4:47.3
CRA Women (2008) – Composite VetB 5:28.7

For 2011 we again had exciting prizes and special awards to make it another challenging and entertaining event including:Tankards for category winners – free fill of Milton Brewery beer (sponsored by Milton Brewery) if collected at the prize giving.

  • Course Record awards – a Magnum of Veuve Clicquot Champagne to the fastest crew breaking the Men’s or Ladies’ course records (see below for record times).
  • Prizes for the most ‘impressive’ starts (all 9 crew members win bottles of “champs”).
  • Cox awards for judged best line around Ditton Corner. 1st prize sponsored by the Riverboat Georgina.
  • BBQ (from 13:00) and prizegiving (at 16:30) at City Boathouse

Competing crews must carefully read the following documents which are downloadable below:

  • Competitor Info
  • Safety Plan
  • Map of the course

Entries closed on Tuesday 8th May 2012 at 6pm

University crews PLEASE NOTE – your ENTRY CATEGORY is your MAYS DIVISION (as of final results of Mays 2011) not your crew position in your boat club eg Mays 3 not 2nd boat. Any crews that will be entering the Getting-on Race are welcome to enter as M6 or W5.

Future Dates

2013 – Sunday 19th May
2014 – Sunday 18th May

Documents

 

Course Records

YEAR TIME CREW
2004 – MEN 4.37 Queens M1
2004 – WOMEN 5.18 Caius W1 & Magdalene W1
2005 – MEN 4.56 Clare M1
2005 – WOMEN 5.26 Jesus W1
2006 – MEN 4.42 Emma M1
2006 – WOMEN 5.22 Caius W1
2007 – MEN 4:32
1st & 3rd M1
2007 – WOMEN 5:15
Jesus W1
2008 – MEN
4:24.1
Downing M1 (course record)
2008 – WOMEN
5:07.6
Christs W1 (Time Only – course record)
2009 – MEN 4:39.8 Downing M1
2009 – WOMEN 5:34.5 Pembroke W1
2010 – MEN 4:33.1 Downing M1
2010 – WOMEN 5:22.4 Newnham W1
2011 – MEN 5:02.2 Jesus M1 (Time only)
2011 – WOMEN 5:54.2 Downing W1

2010 Race photos:

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